This is an analysis of the poem To Englishmen that begins with:
You flung your taunt across the wave;
We bore it as became us,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcbccXdeddefgffXhiXhicjccjabaaiklkklmgmmgiXiihblbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 1101011 11010101 11011101 0101011 11111100 11010111 11111011 11010011 11011000 111100001 01011110 11110111 110001001 1101010 11011111 0110010 110111001 01110111 0100010 11100111 0111110 11110100 11111101 1101110 10110011 1100010 11011111 11010011 0111010 11110101 1100111 11010111 01011001 0101110 11011101 1101110 11110101 011110011 1101010 11010101 0101110 11111111 11010101 1100010 10010101 010101 11110101 11001100 01010001 11011111 1111011 10110101 10110101 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1883
- Average number of words per stanza: 347
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, our, we, and are repeated.
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- summary of To Englishmen;
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- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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